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The Age of Electric Cars Is Dawning Ahead of Schedule
FRANKFURT — An electric Volkswagen ID.3 for the same price as a Golf. A Tesla Model 3 that costs as much as a BMW 3 Series. A Renault Zoe electric subcompact whose monthly lease payment might equal a nice dinner for two in Paris. As car…
Covid-19 is driving electric vehicles sales in the right direction
Tesla electric vehicles on the assembly line at a factory in Shanghai, on January 7. Photo: Reuters Tesla electric vehicles on the assembly line at a factory in Shanghai, on January 7. Photo: Reuters…
Electric cars changing Kern county's economy
Our free enterprise economic system is based on something called capitalism, which many of its advocates love until it affects them. We're seeing an example of this here in Kern County, where the petroleum industry on the west side of the Tehachapi…
Global Trade Returns Faster Than Expected
Global trade is rebounding much more quickly this year than it did after the 2008 financial crisis, lifting parts of the world economy and defying predictions the pandemic could send globalization into permanent retreat. When the new coronavirus…
Qatar signs deal to set up first local electric car factory
A € 20 million joint venture between Qatari and French companies to establish an electric car production facility. Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) signed an agreement with Gaussin Advance Mobility, a French company, to establish the…
Russian nuclear giant Rosatom eyes 10% of lithium market by 2030
“We are considering the acquisition of raw material assets overseas to integrate into global supply chains for final products such as batteries with localized production in Russia,” Sergey Polgorodnik, general director of Joint Stock…
Sunday Strategist: Electric Vehicle Charging That Makes Sense
Few of us understand what a kilowatt hour represents. A minute, however, is a pretty intuitive unit of measurement and, New York aside, represents the same thing the world over. So when electric vehicle entrepreneurs starting building public…
Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities
If global warming were an extraterrestrial adversary, it would not have to fear a diplomatically unified Earth. The past decade of climate summits in Copenhagen, Bali, Cancun, and Paris have only nudged us towards the limp goal of business as usual…
Carmakers Shed 80,000 Jobs as Electric Shift Upends Industry
Equipment is set into a truck chassis at Freightliner's Cleveland, N.C., plant. Freightliner is a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. (Freightliner via YouTube) [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] It's turning…
Polestar points to 'a disturbing lack of transparency' about EV carbon footprint
Polestar on Thursday said it would publish full details on the 'climate impact' of its electric cars. The move 'sets new standards for other car makers to follow,' Polestar declared in a press release. Based on what Green Car Reports has seen…
The Musk Method: Learn from partners then go it alone
Elon Musk is hailed as an innovator and disrupter who went from knowing next to nothing about building cars to running the world's most valuable automaker in the space of 16 years. But his record shows he is more of a fast learner who forged…
What to expect from Tesla on 'battery day'
Published Sun, Sep 20 2020 10:27 AM EDT Since 2017, Tesla has mass-manufactured batteries for its cars and energy storage products at its Gigafactory in Nevada, with its partner Panasonic. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Tesla is holding its annual…
Electric vehicle sales slump as supply challenges leave dealerships with shortages
Published Sept. 20, 2020 1:41 p.m. ET A car is charged at a charge station for electric vehicles on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick TORONTO -- The COVID-19 pandemic has pummelled Canada's…
Looking to buy an electric car? Here's why they may be harder to find
TORONTO — The COVID-19 pandemic has pummelled Canada's automobile industry but it's the lack of supply that's helping to short-circuit electric vehicle adoption across the country. Electric vehicle sales plunged along with gasoline-fuelled…
Hydrogen to follow gas expansion in Morrison bid for net zero emissions
The technology road map will be aimed at creating a clean energy industry that can ship hydrogen to customers such as Japan and South Korea and building a new export industry to replace gas. But it will focus heavily on using carbon capture and…
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